Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queens on the Cross Bronx Expressway. A gunman, or gunmen, followed in a car, sped ahead of them on the expressway, and parked in waiting at an exit ramp. As the students neared the Whitestone Bridge, a volley from a high-powered automatic or semiautomatic M-16-type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat passenger in the vehicle next to theirs. A second blast ripped into the back seat of the youngsters' car, wounding Spilky in the right knee...
...soldiers seem very young, and they are: the average age is 20. One night Keith Lewis, 19, and three companions were savoring field-ration brownies in their bunker when a shot rang out near by. They leaped to their feet, then started giggling, realizing they had nowhere to run. "It's weird in the dark," says Lewis. "We get to laughing a lot." The men are, however, aging quickly. Captain Paul Roy, the company commander, gathered his troops a few days ago in a memorial service for two of the Marines killed in action. He read eulogies to them...
...predicted his company would have sales of $1 billion by 1984. For a time those boasts seemed correct. He developed the first successful portable computer, the Osborne 1, packaged it with three popular programs, and sold the machine for an unusually low $1,795. Last year Osborne Computer rang up sales of about $70 million. But the firm could not maintain its success. In the past week it filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. While Osborne had virtually no income, it owed suppliers $45 million...
DIED. James Wechsler, 67, liberal columnist and former editor of the New York Post; of cancer; in New York City. Wechsler was one of the first major journalists to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt tactics in the early 1950s. His signed columns (1961-83) often rang with moral indignation on behalf of the disadvantaged...
...that moment, a shot rang out, then two more. The reporters rushed to the windows in the plane's first-class compartment and saw Aquino lying face down on the pavement, a gaping hole in the back of his head. The khaki-clad guards who had taken him from the plane were nowhere to be seen, and the area was swarming with blue-uniformed AVSECOM troops. Next to a van, two of the troopers looked on as a third pumped at least eight bullets into the body of a man dressed in a blue Philippine Airlines maintenance worker...